OK. So to do this, we need a little more abstract way of talking about efficiency, and so, the question is, how do we think about efficiency? Typically there's two things we want to measure.

好，为了达到这个目的,我们需要用一种有点，抽象的方式去讨论效率，这衍生出来,一个问题，我们该怎么去认识效率？,主要来说我们有两个要量化的东西。

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and the Euro is a currency that helps to do that.

欧元是一种货币，可以帮助其达到这个目的。

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And so for that, we need a language.

为了达到这一点，我们需要一种语言。

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What we're talking about is literariness--that is to say, certain devices that we can identify that perform a certain function -and maybe out of the identification of these devices, to evolve a theory that's more widespread.

我们谈的是文学性，是一种我们能够认知并运用来达到一定目的的策略,我们需要进一步发展这个策略，使这个理论进化并传播。

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hey reach a certain equilibrium.

从而达到一种平衡状态。

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But it's worked on your brain to the point where you get to that sort of what I like to think of that bar room militancy, whereby if a guy says, "would you pass the peanuts," you say, "oh yeah!"

这会作用于你的大脑,让你达到一种,我认为的,在酒吧里准备打架的状态,就像如果有人说,"请你把花生递给我",你会说,"哦耶"

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That's what we wanna achieve with Kindle, to have a device, so simple, it's a tool that would disappear and let you enter the author's world.

这就是我们想要通过Kindle达到的目标，设计一种简单的装置，自己消失的同时,能够让读者进入作者的世界。

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